Re: displaying resident programs?

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Mynott wrote:
> Cool I look forward to testing it!
>
> Actually another tool that would be *most* useful :-) is something along 
> the lines of NetBSD's pmap(1) or Darwin's vmmap, which is AFAIK absent 
> in FreeBSD/DragonFly to basically display the virtual memory map of a 
> process.

	Well, I think such being possible through Linux' procfs,
	through /proc/<pid>/map.  Anyway, FreeBSD and friends do
	have a pmap utility but it sort of sucks because of the
	sick tricks it plays using a helper KLD. :-)

	It can be found at: ports/sysutils/pmap.  I have got it
	working almost, but I am seriously not looking to fix it
	anymore.  If I get time (since I am up to my neck with
	a few projects) I will port NetBSD's pmap utility.

> I assume that both pmap(1) (which uses UVM and appears under another 
> name in OpenBSD) and vmmap (which uses Mach and doesn't anyway appear to 
> be open source) would be too system specific to be directly ported??

	I guess pmap(1) is easier to port than vmmap, but that is
	just plain speculation.
> -- Steve

	Cheers.

	-Hiten
	Hiten Pandya
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